I think that it's an important question. Although...

2008-09-29T13:10:00.000-07:00

I think that it's an important question. Although I don't agree with Mbeki's approach to AIDS (or perhaps, don't even know the policy intimately enough) my feeling is that there's something there (in his original statement) that deserves extra attention.

I also think that HIV/AIDS was getting worse at precisely the same moment that South Africa was democratizing. The most turbulent years were a perfect breeding ground.

There was space to take HIV/AIDS more seriously, but it's not clear that it would have helped, given what South Africa was going through at the time (and what it still goes through)

that's interesting--I had a (South African)teacher...

2008-09-28T18:36:00.000-07:00

that's interesting--I had a (South African)teacher once who put that question to us in class and had us look at HIV/AIDS in relation to GDP and several other indexes and I remember thinking that it was a very novel approach--I didn't know that it was Mbeki who actually came out with a statement of that sort. But at the same time, the same teacher also had a dim view of Mbeki's take on AIDS...

Comments on The Concrete Gardener: Poverty as the Cause of AIDS?

I think that it's an important question. Although...

that's interesting--I had a (South African)teacher...